December 28, 2009

Wholesale Healthcare (and Eunuchs)

And- goddammit!- if you make it mandatory for everyone, and prohibit risk-based pricing, it's not actually "insurance" anymore. It's a "buyers' club" for medical services.

Obviously, a buyers' club is great if you're an unemployed 50-year-old base-jumping, gator-wrestling smoker with diabetes and chronic dry eye; not so much if you're a healthy, risk-averse person forced to participate.

Freedom Quotes

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- Benjamin Franklin

What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. –- Thomas Jefferson

Religion isn't the opiate of the masses; it's the placebo of the masses. –- Dr. Gregory House

Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. –- Frederic Bastiat

Why am I a libertarian? I submit, with some serious reservation, that it is easier to bring heart to a heartless doctrine than bring sense to a senseless one. At least libertarianism makes sense; now, to just make it more human. –- Unknown

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largesse out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result being the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing. –- Alexander Fraser Tyler

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. –- Thomas Jefferson